Global Histories of Material Culture
Event date:
Tuesday 24 May 2016
Location:
Room G16, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School
Philosophy of biology meets social studies of biosciences.
Perspectives on living organisms
Professor Peter Watts QC (University of Auckland, Leverhulme Visiting Professor to Oxford University, 2016,Principal Editor, Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency) will present 'Some Aspects of the Intersection of the Law of Agency with the Law of Restitution’
Denys Hay Lecture 2016
Friday 20 May, 17.30
Professor Catherine Clarke (English, University of Southampton): Place Machines: memory, imagination and the medieval…
Lecture Theatre 183, Old College University of Edinburgh South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Workshop Title: Christianity and Citizenship in India
Date: 20th of May, Friday, 2016.
Time: 9am-5pm
Place: Graduate School Practice Suit, Room 1.12, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square, University of Edinburgh.
Lecture Title: Getting the Terms Straight: Politics, State & Law in the Discourse of Chinese ‘Legalism’ - by Professor Kai Vogelsang
Time: Thursday 19 May 2016 at 18:00 -19:30
Location: Project Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception All welcome. No booking required.
Further information can be found on our website at:
Veronique Gilbert 'Materialised emotions: aphrodisiacs, lingerie and affective economies in Dakar, Senegal' More information: http://www.worldaswefeelit.hss.ed.ac.uk/
Professor Declan Kiberd: The Future of the Past: Revival Ireland 1891-1922
http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/events/view/visiting-speaker-philosophy-seminar-116
18 May 2016, 15.30 - 17.30.
Dugald Stewart Building, 1.17.
Prof Rob Hopkins (NYU)
Title: Imaginative Understanding, Affective Profiles and the Expression of Emotion